When I was growing up, my grandma would always roast the Thanksgiving bird and bring it to the meal at our house. I say “bird” because our holiday fowl wasn’t always the traditional turkey.
One year, at the advice of her butcher, Grammy decided to get a capon (kay-pon). What’s a capon, we asked. The answer? [...]

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As a young bride in the mid 1980’s, I moved to the North Carolina coast and discovered something amazing: There was a real-life, genuine movie studio in Wilmington.
I was immediately star-struck. This was the closest I’d ever been to Hollywood.
In 1976, Italian filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis relocated to the U.S., created a film studio and [...]

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